Car-replacer.



G. H. SARGBNT'. GAR RBPLAGEE. I AYPLIOATIOR FILED JUNE 12, 1908.

909,914. Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

l-lll 1 n. m 18 GEORGE H. SARGENT, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

CAR-REPLACE R.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 19, 1909.

Application filed June 12, 1908. Serial No. 438,095.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE H. SARGENT, a citizen of the United States,residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Car-Replacers, of whichthe following is a specification.

My invention concerns derailed car replacers or rerailers which areemployed temporarily as rails or supports for the wheels, the latterrolling up the same and being delivered to and replaced upon therailroad rails. In devices of this character it is essential that theyshall possess adequate strength, be simple in design, be effective andeflicient in operation, and be of a minimum weight, whereby a single manmay readily carry a pair of them without difiieulty or discomfort. It isfurthermore advantageous to have the construction such that the derailedwheels will travel on their treads on the replacers rather than on theirflanges, which, because of the considerable weight or load imposed uponthem, have a tendency to cut into or score and break the rerailers. Inaddition, it is the aim of my present invention to so construct thereplacers or rerailers that they will be capable of reversal as regardsposition alongside the rail, and may consequently be used to rerail acar when rolled upon them from either of two opposite directions.

As will be apparent from the detailed description hereinafter, myimproved rerailers belong to the class of derailed car replacers of thesingle pick-up end wedgeshaped type, rather than to the style or classof rerailers of the straddle-rail or V-shaped pattern.

My improved replacer, which is used to rerail the wheel derailed ordisplaced outside of the pair of railroad rails, has an inclined orwedge-shaped pick-up or receiving end adapted to be placed under thetread of the wheel, and up which the tread of the wheel is adapted to berolled. At the delivery or higher end of the replacer, this inclinedelevating track merges into or terminates in a broadened dischargeterminal portion whose top face is transversely convex, its highestpoints or line being disposed substantially longitudinally centrally ofthe rerailer. Only that half of the beveled or inclined convex surfaceof the delivery or discharge end of the rerailer adjacent to therailroad rail is employed for sliding or delivering the elevated wheelto the track, the other or opposite half being used when the position ofthe rerailer is reversed alongside the rail to replace a wheel whenrolled upon it in the opposite direction. The companion rcplaceremployed to rerail the wheel temporarily derailed between the rails hasa receiving and elevating inclined track portion on which the tread ofthe wheel rolls as described above, but in this replacer the top face ofthe broadened discharge end is transversely concave and symmetricallydisposed in relation to the central longitudinal plane of the device. Inthis case the discharge end of the structure picks up the flange of thewheel, which by cooperation with the inclined half of the concave faceremote from the rail causes the wheel to travel toward and be replacedupon the rail. The concave surface of the one replacer and the convexsurface of the other coact with the wheels to effectively and quicklyput the derailed truck on the rails. Owing to the symmetricalarrangement and structure of the pair of companion rerailers, they maybe so positioned along the sides of the railroad rails as to replace atruck when rolled upon them from either direction, it being understoodthat each replacer has but a single elevating or pick-up end, which isplaced under the treads of the wheels.

On the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification, and towhich reference will be made in connection with the followingdescription, I have illustrated a pair of cooperating or companion carreplacers or rerailers of preferred and desirable form, and on thevarious views of the drawing, like reference characters refer to thesame parts throughout.

On the drawing,l igure 1 is a vertical cross-section through therailroad rails illustrating in end elevation the two companion replacersand a portion of a car truck; Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the replaceradapted to rerail the wheel which has been displaced outside of therailroad rails; Fig. 3 is a plan view of the structure shown in Fig. 2;Fig. i is an elevation of the left-hand end of the structure shown inFig. 2; Fig. 5 is an end elevation of the opposite end of the samedevice; Fig. 6 is a side elevation of the other replacer; Fig. 7 is aplan view of the same; Fig. 8 is an elevation of the left-hand end ofthe rerailer shown in Fig. 6, and in addition shows a portion of acar-wheel there on; Fig. 9 is an elevation of the opposite end of thedevice shown in Fig. 6; Fig. 10 is a section on line 1010 of Fig. 6; andFig. 11 is a section on line 11l1 of Fig. 6.

Referring first to the car replacer or rerailer shown in Figs. 2, 3, 4and 5, it will be noticed that the device is supplied with a wedgeshapedor inclined track 12 substantially Lshape in cross section, the lowertapered end of this elevating track being intended and adapted to beplaced under the tread of the wheel derailed outside of the railroadrails. In order to securely main tain this end of the rerailer in placeon the cross ties, the base of the same is supplied with a pair ofoppositely-extended apertured ears 13, through the holes of which spikesmay be temporarily driven into the cross tie. The other or broadeneddelivery end 14 of the device is of shell or box shape construction,being equipped on itsbase or bottom edge with a plurality ofoppositely-in clined spurs or prongs 15 adapted to be pressed into thetop face of a cross tie to assist in maintaining the wheel replacer inproper position. This delivery or discharge end. 14 of the device istransversely convex, as is clearly indicated in Figs. 1, 4 and 5, theconvex surface being symmetrically arranged with respect to the centrallongitudinal plane of the structure, so that the highest point or lineof this discharge end constitutes an extension or prolongation of thewheel elevating track 12, which at its inner end merges into the convexsurface, as is clearly shown in Fig. 3.

Giving attention now to the companion rerailer of difierentconstruction, shown in Figs. 6 to 11, inclusive, it will be-noted thatthis rerailer has an inclined tread track 16' of substantially I-shapein cross section, and of the same general construction and for the samepurpose as the corresponding track 12 of the other wheel replacer. Thetrack 16 is also supplied with apertured ears 17 intended to accommodateand receive spikes to be driven into a cross tie. The other end of thisrerailer is of shell construction, as is clearly indicated in Fig. 11,and is equipped along its bottom edge with a number of oppositelyinclined or disposed spurs 18 adapted to become pressed into the wood ofthe cross ties or sleepers. This discharge or delivery end 19 of thereplacer is downwardly inclined toward the adjacent end of the device,so as to assist in the rol ing: and delivery of the wheels on to therails. This discharge end 19 is broadened at 20 at its inner portion,and is tapered toward the end of the structure, as indicated in Fig. '1.its top surface, which is transversely concave and symmetricallydisposed with relation to the central longitudinal plane of the device,is somewhat lower in position than the upper end of the elevating track16, so that as the tread of the wheel leaves the track and passes fromthe end thereof, the concave surface 19 will receive the flange of thewheel, as is shown in Fig. 8.

The operation of these replacers is sub stantially as follows: Assumingthat both of them have been laid alongside the respective railroad railswitn their pick-up or inclined track ends placed beneath the treads ofthe pair of derailed wheels, the latter are rolled up the tracks 12 and16, and caused to travel upon the discharge er delivery ends 14: and 19.The flange of the wheel which has traveled up at one side of the track16 rides upon and engages the inclined half of the concave face 19remote from'the adjacent rail, the,

whole truck a sidewise travel, so as to deliver both wheels on to theirrespective rails. The contact of the flange of the outside wheel with thtapered portion of its replacer between the track 12 and the broaddischarge end also gives to the wheel 'a sidewise travel tows d itsrail. It should he noted that the discharge end 14; of the deviceillustrated in Figs. 1 and 2 is of sutlicient height so as to carry theii-i e of the wheel traveling thereon over the rail, this relation ofthe parts being indicated in Fig. 1. Since it is not ne essary to liftthe flange of the other wheel over its rail, it need not be raised ashigh.

To those skilled in this art it will be apiareut that by carrying thewheels on the eplacers on their treads for a considerable )Ol'ijlOll oftheir travel, am enabled to make -h weight and of girder or end for end,in which case the opposite sides of the convex and concave discharge ordelivery faces would be employed for giving the sidewise tendency oftravel to the wheels to land them on the tracks.

These devices are susceptible of considerable structural change withoutdeparture from the substance of my invent-ion, which is not limited tothe exact and precise structural features shown and described.

I claim:

1. A pair of cooperating inner and outer railway car replacers thelatter composed solely of a base, an inclined track on said base upwhich the tread of a derailed wheel is adapted to roll, said trackterminating in a discharge end having a top transversely-convex face,whereby either inclined side of said convex face may be employed todeliver the wheel to the rail, substantially as described.

2. A pair of cooperating inner and outer railway car replacers thelatter being composed solely of a base, an inclined track on said baseup which the tread of a derailed wheel is adapted to roll, said trackterminating in a discharge end having a top transversely-convex facedisposed substantially symmetrically with respect to the longitudinalcentral plane of the device, whereby either inclined side of said convexface may be employed to deliver the wheel to the rail, substantially asdescribed.

3. A pair of cooperating inner and outer railway car replacers thelatter being adapted to be laid beside the rail and having an inclinedtrack of I-section up which the tread of a derailed wheel is adapted toroll, said track terminating in a discharge end of shell or box section,said end having a top transversely-convex face disposed substantiallysymmetrically with respect to the central longitudinal plane of thedevice, whereby either inclined side of said convex face may be employedto deliver the wheel to the rail.

-'L. A pair of cooperating inner and outer railway *ar replacers, theformer being adapted to be laid beside the rail and having a centrallydisposed inclined track up which the tread of a derailed wheel isadapted to roll, said track terminating in a discharge end having a toptransversely-concave face, whereby either inclined side of said concaveface may be employed to deliver the wheel to the rail, substantially asdescribed.

5. A pair of cooperating inner and outer railway car replacers, theformer being adapted to be laid beside the rail and having a centrallydisposed inclined track up which the tread of a derailed wheel isadapted to roll, said track terminating in a discharge end having a toptransversely-concave face substantially symmetrically disposed withrelation to the longitudinal central plane of the device, whereby eitherinclined side of said concave face may be employed to deliver the wheelto the rail.

6. A pair of coope'ating inner and outer railway car replacers, theformer being adapted to be laid beside the rail and having an inclinedtrack of substantially I-section up which the tread of a derailed wheelis adapted to roll, said track terminating in a discharge end of shellor box section having a top transversely-concave face, whereby eitherinclined side of said concave face may be employed to deliver the Wheelto the rail.

7. A pair of railway car replacers adapted to be laid alongside therailroad rails and cooperating to replace a derailed truck or car onsaid rails, one of said replacers having an inclined track up which thetread of a derailed wheel is adapted to roll, said track terminating ina discharge end having a top transversely-convex face either inclinedside of which may be employed to deliver the wheel to the rail, theother replacer having an inclined track up which the tread of a derailedwheel is adapted to roll, said latter track terminating in a dischargeend having a top transversely-coneave face either inclined side of whichmay be employed to deliver the wheel to the rail.

8. A pair of railway car replacers adapted to be laid alongside therailroad rails and cooperating to rerail a derailed truck or car, one ofsaid replacers having an inclined track up which the tread of a derailedwheel is adapted to roll, said track terminating in a discharge endhaving a top transverselyconvex face disposed substantiallysymmetrically with relation to the longitudinal central plane of thedevice, whereby either inclined side of said convex face may beememployed to deliver the wheel to the rail, the other replacer havingan inclined track up which the tread of a derailed wheel is adapted toroll, said track terminating in a dis charge end having a toptransversely-concave face disposed substantially symmetrically withrespect to the central longitudinal plane of the device, whereby eitherinclined side of said concave face may be employed to deliver the wheelto the rail.

9. A pair of railway car replacers adapted to be laid alongside therailroad rails and cooperating to rerail a derailed truck or car, one ofsaid replacers having an inclined track of substantially I-section upwhich the tread of a derailed wheel is adapted to travel, said trackterminating in a widened discharge end of shell or box section having atop transversely-convex face disposed substantially symmetrically withrespect to the central longitudinal plane of the device, whereby eitherinclined side of said convex face may be employed to deliver the wheelto the rail, the other replacer having an in clined track ofsubstantially I-section up I whereby either inclined side of said convexwhich the tread of a derailed Wheel is adaptface may be employed todeliver the Wheel ed to travel, said track terminating in a disto therail.

charge end of shell or box section having a GEORGE H. SARGENT. toptransversely-concave face disposed sub- Witnesses: stantiallysymmetrically with respect to the VALTER M. FULLER,

central longitudinal plane of the device, CLARE L. ROsENOW.

